[wp-hackers] [Gsoc Idea] Tagging/Taking a snapshot of WP installation

[Thomas Scholz]

Ankit Ahuja:

> What this basically means is being able to take a snapshot of a WP
> installation at any particular time and then being able to revert back  
> to it
> if something bad happens ( say files are deleted or the blog is hacked )

Sounds good.

> The snapshot will include the following files:
>
> 1. WP Core Files

[…]

> The reason to include all of the core and plugin files is
> because of the nasty hacks that can introduce code at hard to find  
> places.

But why not use <http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/>?

> 4. Maybe a content XML ( the one that is produced as part of the Export
> process )

Such a backup doesn’t include users without posts. An SQL dump would more  
useful.

Thomas

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